The Pool (16mm  film still) Cinematography: Marie Chao

The 16 mm film The Pool has the format of a compilation film and film essay. The film tells the stories about two cases of erasure – the US bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq and the destruction of an outdoor pool in cold-war Moscow, where homosexual women were cruising each other. The Pool is now gone and only exists through memory of a woman that once visited it. Similarly, we learn about the bombings in the Middle East through a visit at the place of their simulation: a test bombsite in the Californian desert. Constantly shifting between locations and their mediations, the film never visits the “real” place.

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THE POOL
Year: 2004
16mm/video